Show I I I F LABOR TEMPLES TEMPLES SHOULD BE BUILT I By Br iI M Grant It H should le hn the he aIm of union Ion labor laborin I In every city whIch has I a r union meu exceeding 1000 mom bors bers to 10 build a This I Ihas has leen agitated In a number of in industrial I center centers ont but as Yot only a afew few have buit built t temples devoted cx I elusively to organized labor On the theother other hand band lu iu al ill time the cities that make an any II lie I lie corn com mercial field buildings devoted to lo the Ilic theIse Ise of Cham Chambers of Commerce ald amid of Trade lae have been heen the Interests h by business mon men In the COI cent morce of cites cities and there ther is 15 nO no reason reason why lal lab 01 should not huld fO for Itse a homo honie hel eO union labor Is strong rong to maintain I a permanent abode to lo the exclusive Ise muse of organized laboi have had a salu sam lary eff effect c In bringing closer together te tile members oL of our various organizations tons I In Seattle ol organized labom a temple stories high antI and Illon upon Is its completion found It to Lo be e Inadequate to lo 1 an and immediately added I another story This Is pa ia lag ing six per cent interest on ho in invest vest ent and the rent rents of time various of this making use muse bl building have materially re re reduced I San Frncisco FrancIsco also has a Labor en plo Pr of I iti own and I sin am Informed l that i It a also o Is a profitable investment allas City Is just completing a Labor In time the latter tho laler cl city they have hao b cel trying for SUe sonic twelve years to lo build up a Wilhelm when completed wi will be entirely free of debt which wl vIll be some seine time in iii inthe the ho nOll future They wi vIll ha have c a building that will be a credit to the wi movement There Thore is 18 no reason wh why the members o of o our I movement not make an effort In every cit city and town lown where unions are arc In sufficient number to erect creet for Cor a place where al all members of the tho thus ious o crafts might a communion meeting place I It not only advances the best of our movement as a whole hil blit gives Ies time individual I members a stimulus In their efforts I Ito to further build up the 11 In every city whore where I a home hn has been erected for organized labor I it Is found that I It is effective t than hal In where organizations are arc scattered throughout the varIous of the city So far as the Investment Is it iL Is I a profitable one to al nih organizations partIcipating In Iii the tho Temples of whIch ha have 0 em We Vu fluid reading rooms room whore ae ame to Ie lie found call ni all o of time the labor press both local md and international a lar large c number of our 1 taking advantage or of time the Sm same Our Om efforts ha have been expend expended Cc ed along the tho Ins lines or of education and amid andIn In the reading rooms of time the few toni lem pies plc which ae are now being wo we that liar attention Is being laid hy by time tho members rs of the tho current literature of our cause I It Is also hue rime list thal where a common meeting Is provided you wl will always find the active members of Cur congro congregated and aud i it necessarily follows that discussIons are en entered leree into lien to lo our mOI movement ment as a of the mingling amid nud of our affiliates If H It were to erect of character iu iii fH fifty or sixty of our cities R lu Iii the corn com IlS lug far n a notable increase In mem and would lie ho a amid 11 l it ought to he be at once up mal and wherever there lucre Is suf detent resources to establish a toni tem tile pic The Tho labor ires of our country has not 1 a cry ery smooth pathway arid and Is limIted to a very err smal small field of oC opera Lons Ions mint only so 80 far a us advertIsIng patronage Is concerned hut also frol front fronta a news new st standpoint If however It possible for the editors of those these papers to receive from a common eon cen tom tel the current current news of the tho tona tione It wil vili be possIble for these papers to give glo tho ho Ile live and news from their localities As state Blute I It Is extremely difficult for fOl an ellor editor of a labor paper to employ a force to gather the hue news or of the unIons minions whore their meeting places are arc over a blond broad area and amid I It can ho be said o of the local labou editor that ho he does a tro tre Jn influence fO fou time the and of our movement movement I It Is not a very difficult Ins ing for a body hody of men to commence the building of a which would bo be necessary for or the use uso or of or or organized labor but It does docs take sOle seine persistence and good judgment th the object of thel their efforts has been completed tho they wl will he ex cx wel well repaid Our mo to a very large arge ex cx extent tent Is a and wc should exercise our endeavors 11 na an effort to mak Jt it a thoroughly eato date institution Ir If however we arc ame lax In taking advantage or of the opportunIties presented to our movement In just that degree wl wilt be deficient I It I Is tle rime the of this object cannot be In a day or a week eek but It is not mint a matter to form Corm a nucleus around which can be gathered time val var Iou louis influences anti and support to under undertake take an of time character and when once It It I Is fairly started It wi bt he found that lint there wi bo be n a new interest alcoa In the of ef efforts I I forts heln put forth In some cItes cities It might be advisable to Incorporate In time the of n a structure a Time The lower lowel foor floor could ie he fitted up tip for rent rent This entails It a larger expendi tore ture of mone money than would he be necessary necessary sary to construct construct a tooled devoted to the exclusive muse of unions minions Evo Every body In the United States tako this con comi I and appoint committees for forthe forthe the purpose Or of makIng and instituting a campaign to futher further thIs worth worthy project Ft Fraternity rl In labor unions can camm he be Increased greaty greatly hy by providing ade and commodious meeting hals halls At stated Intervals provision could he be made for discussions on the varIous topics In whIch organized labor IS represented The members would be como collie interested In time the general ties tics of om 01 the tho general gonera movement If opportunities whIch are arc afforded bY bYa a temple of oC unionIsm were pre Presented to them themI I The rhe acquisItion of pr ert h by the lie i labor organizatIons In the shape shap of a aI structure dedicated to the lie 1180 of the I movement would not only he be an ob object object of pride give to time the stand ins a L firmer foothold and amid higher I In lie Ule community movement Is not only interest I cd 01 In time tho welfare or of Its I I members but In al all time the bettor better I which hits hag for its purpose or of exIsting conditions Time The would ho he force of oC our org organizations greatly Increased In eer every locality greaty homo home where wo we maintaIn a permanent for fOI our minions OU Oum opInIons In civic matters be given COi colt and from Crom oer every point of view Uw time would be ade |